A medium-sized orange can provide a day's worth of vitamin C and improve the body's ability to resist bacterial attack. Oranges can remove free radicals from the body that are harmful to health and inhibit the growth of tumor cells. Of all fruits, citrus contains the highest amount of antioxidants, including more than 60 flavonoids and 17 carotenoids. Flavonoids are anti-inflammatory, strengthen blood vessels and inhibit blood clotting. Carotenoids have strong antioxidant properties. These components give oranges an inhibitory effect on the development of many types of cancer.

Oranges are high in vitamin C and have always been a favorite fruit for many people. But for women, eating more oranges has another unexpected benefit for them, which is to reduce the incidence of gallstones.

But it is recommended not to eat too much at a time, pay attention to often eat can, Chinese medicine point of view, some people are not suitable for eating oranges. For example, people with dry mouth and throat, red tongue and less moss and other phenomena.

The Chinese medicine believes that this is caused by the lack of liver yin, and eating too many oranges is more likely to hurt the liver qi, hair deficiency heat.